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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 10h

In 1990, a group of Black women took on one of America's largest corporations in a battle for a historic Black school. 25 years later, the've reshaped how we fund, teach, and preserve Black history

The Auntie Fascists: How a Group of Black Women Defeated Walmart, Lost Cause and the Erasure of Black History

When a group of retirees hatched a plan to save their historic Black school, they had no idea that they were creating a blueprint for legislators, museums and historic sites across America.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 10h

BREAKING: Israeli forces have killed 126 Palestinians in 271 raids across the Gaza Strip over the past five days, including at least 75 in Gaza City, according to the besieged enclave’s Government Media Office.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/taonkh

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 10h

Dear ActBlue:
On top of all of your irritations, you are now being incredibly ableist in your text messages. Remove the alt-font function, because you are deliberately excluding (or worse, subjecting them to a mess of ASCII numbers) your low vision and reading disability recipients.

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Democrats In Array Thanks Joe Biden @demsinarray.bsky.social · 10h

Yeah. The Republicans Idaho keeps electing time and time again are terrible for America.

Until Idaho’s Republican voters finally get this through their thick, sick, white supremacist heads, they’ll keep getting more of it.

The Idaho 97 @theidaho97.bsky.social · 1d

Bad for Idaho, bad for America.

‘People are going to die’: Idahoans fear spike in insurance costs

Boise resident Susan Wood spent her career in the health insurance industry. She worries federal changes may upend her health care coverage.

www.idahostatesman.com

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 11h

People think that when you become disabled, support magically appears

That once it’s “official” you will have your basic needs met

The truth is people fight for years to get the bare minimum in benefits

Caregivers are nearly impossible to find

If you’re not rich or very lucky… you’re on your own

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 10h

BREAKING: US President Trump says Israel and Hamas have “signed off on the first Phase of our Peace Plan,” adding that “all of the hostages will be released very soon, and Israel will withdraw their troops to an agreed line.”

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/taonkh

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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 11h

That story:

Report: Kentucky jails contracting with ICE have 659% increase in detainees this year

Data from the study shows one county jail in Kentucky had contracted with ICE to hold roughly 120 detainees in January. By August, nine county jails held more than 900.

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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 10h

Registration for these 3 in-person workshops happening this Saturday in NYC closes on Friday, so if you're interested, please register ASAP:

Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 1d

If you're in NYC, we have 3 Communiversity workshops this Saturday, Oct. 11th. In-person, sliding scale.

Want to learn how to raise money to support critical work, something that is very hard these days? Our co-founder @prisonculture.bsky.social is facilitating a session on grassroots fundraising:

Communiversity Catalog: Grassroots Fundraising for Organizers — Interrupting Criminalization

www.interruptingcriminalization.com

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 10h

No.

Don’t do this.

Patients will die.

#MedSky

ThatIngrid @thatingrid.bsky.social · 1d

My specialist cancer hospital is downgrading from N95s to surgical masks for apheresis, cell therapies and the haematology ward (which includes autologous stem cell transplant pts).
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Guerrilla Librarian @guerillalibrarian.bsky.social · 19h

No. People think I am overreacting.

Their explanation for this is that if waited out, things always get better.

Why?

Because there are laws against this.

These are white people, BTW. Probably didn’t need to specify.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 19h

I don't think most people understand what we're facing. Not really.

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Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · 1d

Never did, never will.

Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 1d

Folks who tell you that it’s okay to temporarily sacrifice a marginalized group in order to win

Do not care about the marginalized group

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Shantha Mohan, Ph.D., DTM @shlead.bsky.social · 1d

Not sure if this salvia is a "Magic Magenta," but these tiny flowers have eye-popping color!

#TinyFlowerTuesday

#dailyflowers 🌱
#flowerreport
#bloomscrolling

Magenta colored salvia flowers, buds, and greenery.

Camera: iPhone 15 Pro.

April 2025. A neighbor's garden.

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Guerrilla Librarian @guerillalibrarian.bsky.social · 21h

She’s currently helping balance the universe in outrageous times, so yes. Others first at the very least.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 1d

ICE now very literally at war with Presbyterians

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 1d

SURPRISE!!!!! The first stop of #TheDoubleTax book tour was in NYC with Chelsea Clinton and is now on Youtube!!! This conversation was full of lots and lots of laughs as well as some powerful insights. Enjoy!!!! #blacksky #booksky

Styled by: Kalifa Alexander
Hair and makeup: ME MYSELF AND I

Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman with Chelsea Clinton: The Double Tax

YouTube video by The 92nd Street Y, New York

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Tamara Matthews @tamaramatthews.bsky.social · 1d

“I think folks in Chicago want to feel free and safe to walk around and be able to visit and explore without fear of being attacked, assaulted or otherwise victimized,” says the man responsible for the people attacking, assaulting, and victimizing Chicagoans. 🥴

Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 1d

When will ICE leave Chicago? The field director says there's "no end date" for Operation Midway Blitz. blockclubchi.co/47dQfqH

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h

we charge our hyundai ioniq 5 around once every two to three weeks at a muncipal charger and i’d say it runs about $9 for 250 miles of range.

How Much It Costs to Drive an E.V. and a Gas Car in Every State

www.nytimes.com

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Guerrilla Librarian @guerillalibrarian.bsky.social · 21h

Go baby! Strengthen those wings and enjoy your domain in the sky.

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Guerrilla Librarian @guerillalibrarian.bsky.social · 21h

Thank you for commenting from a parental perspective.

It is a happy thing to see and know.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

doomscroll break

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 23h

Banning “dangerous gain-of-function” pathogen research is actually just banning pathogen research. TB causes chronic disease, the supposed cornerstone of the MAHA movement. Hard to see ending TB research on treatments as anything but another targeted attack on science in service of destroying it.

Rock Lab @rocklabtb.bsky.social · 23h

Ditto. Thanks for this Sarah. www.statnews.com/2025/10/06/g...

The NIH ordered me to stop my ‘dangerous’ gain-of-function research. It isn’t dangerous at all

Safe gain-of-function research is necessary to identify new treatments for diseases like for tuberculosis — but the NIH has imposed unfounded stops.

www.statnews.com

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 1d

Hey this is funded! But it could be MORE funded

Nahir I. Otaño Gracia @nahir.bsky.social · 13d

Please support this amazing project! The Speculative Detective Agency invites artists to imagine the borders of the factual and the imaginative.

The kickstarter is to pay the artists. And you get the book in the process!

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Please share widely

The Speculative Detective Agency

A Curious Collection of Mysterious Cases

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Guerrilla Librarian @guerillalibrarian.bsky.social · 21h

The moon is my magical friend. I can imagine what this looked like in person.

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Felicia Davin @feliciadavin.com · 1d

here it is, my medically necessary daily dose of good news www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time

Record solar expansion and steady wind growth driving world’s shift away from fossil fuels in 2025, report finds

www.theguardian.com

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